Argon’s CBRNe and HazMat Training Insights September 2019 Newsletter

Welcome to Argon’s CBRNe
and HazMat Training Insights newsletter. In this edition: the role of
Dynamic Risk Assessments in safeguarding first responders; is Level A
still the best PPE choice for HazMat professionals?; what are the five
joint working principles of JESIP? and predicting the civilian reaction
to a nuclear WMD event.

The National Ambulance Service Command and Control Guidance,
published in April 2019, brings together lessons learned from recent
major incidents and event responses both from within the UK and around
the world, as well as drawing on the experiences of its partners in the
Police and Fire and Rescue Service…. Read more

For the last thirty plus years, the HazMat training community
has looked to Level A personal protective equipment (PPE) as the best
way to safeguard HazMat specialists and first responders when handling
chemical incidents. But is Level A protection always the best choice?
And are there some situations… Read more

As HazMat and CBRNe incidents become larger in scale, more complex
and more unpredictable, the ability for emergency services agencies to
be able to work together has never been more crucial. In the UK, reviews
of response to major national incidents have confirmed the capabilities
of emergency… Read more

Being able to predict how civilian individuals will react
within the first minutes, hours and days of a major nuclear attack could
well provide a life-saving resource for government agencies and
emergency first responders. And it this specific goal that has served as
the impetus for an innovative Homeland Defence and Security Information
Analysis Centre (HDIAC) research project titled ‘A Framework for
Modelling Society Following… Read more